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Reminder: April 2, 2012 Applications Due for 2012-2014 Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program
Applications for the 2012-2014 Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program are due on April 2, 2012. For the online application and more information, please visit the Application and Selection Guide page. The last information session before the deadline is March 7, 2012 from 12pm – 1pm (EST). For the complete schedule, please click here. For any questions [...]
KORUS as Obamacare
Originally published by Pacific Forum CSIS newsletter in PacNet, in Number 10 on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 KORUS as Obamacare: Implications of Calls by Korea’s Opposition Parties to Repeal the Korea US-Free Trade Agreement by L. Gordon Flake Explaining US domestic politics to international audiences is never easy. It is particularly difficult during election years. [...]
East-West Center Asia Pacific Security Seminar
Daniel Aldrich, Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, and Network for the Future Cohort I participant, will be featured at an event held by the East-West Center on March 1st, 2012. He will be speaking on the developments and prospective legacy of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Please note this event is hosted by [...]
Japan Rising
Japan Rising Matthew Poggi (Mansfield Fellow 2009-2011, U.S. Department of Treasury) and Kouhei Otsuka, member of Japan’s House of Councilors and former DPJ senior vice minister, have written a book in which they engage in a broad debate on many of the key contemporary political and economic issues confronting Japan and the United States, as [...]
Learning to Share the Stage
By JENNIFER LIND (This article was originally published in The New York Times on February 5, 2012) Fifty years ago Monday, in a Waseda University auditorium in Tokyo, someone pulled the plug on Robert Kennedy’s microphone. The attorney general had come to Japan to repair the U.S.-Japan alliance in the wake of a major crisis [...]